The Wall of Positive Noise officially cracks.
The Wall of Positive Noise has long been a World Surf League staple since its very first days as an organization in 2015 circa 1976. The fledgling “Global Home of Surfing” and its first brave leader, Paul Speaker, was entirely sunny about each and every aspect of its future. Surfing would soon be bigger than the National Football League.
Bigger than The Beatles.
Each subsequent Chief Executive carried the ultra-happy torch. Not a negative word was allowed to pass from the mouths, or fingers, of any WSL employees. Nothing in any shade of grey.
One decade circa five decades on, the League seems to be staggering under the haunting of its penultimate CEO Erik Logan. The Oklahoman with a magical wetsuit of armor burst onto the scene as President of the WSL Studios by way of Oprah Winfrey and quickly did such a poor job that the whole enterprise was shuttered and he was kicked upstairs to the big desk. There Logan sat, making Instagrams of himself, printing t-shirts of torsos and sucking the breath from professional surfers faces until he was viciously fired with the curtest statement ever.
“Erik Logan is no longer with the company.”
Except he is. That oleaginous ghost haunting, turning the Lexus Pipe Pro forecast to such garbage that the Wall of Positive Noise, itself, is seeing damage.
In an overnight message, the World Surf League shared, “With Wednesday, Feb 5 looking like a potential Finals Day, the plan is to run for three straight days starting Monday Feb. 3. But its the ocean so check back for tomorrow’s call at 7:45.”
Never, not once, in the past decade or five has the WSL delivered such a grumpy, grouchy, hopeless memo. A true bummer certain to dump cold water on even the hottest of surf fans.
“But it’s the ocean.”
So bleak.
But what sort of exorcism would the World Surf League need to do in order to chase the smarmy specter away?
I would imagine any thoughts welcome.
Update: Off for today putting dreamed about Wednesday Finals Day in jeopardy.
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TBC’d on Paramount/Peacock/Hulu/BeachGrit am/fm radio~negioate?
You made your water bed… Now go sleep in it
Enjoy the entire flick for your nostalgia fix if you’re 45 and up, grumpy, declining in ability like me… but it’s the song and commentary in the first minute and 50 seconds or so that answers the question, what saves the circus and what Elo should’ve been told long ago during his manipulation campaign … I realize the irony of posting a Billabong flick to get the point across is pretty thick too, but these are twisted times…
That’s awesome. I remember watching that with my old man when I was about 14. I reckon filthy habits was better. I loved the occy and Richie collins segments. Music was rad too.
Yup. TSOL went through more face lifts in their time than the ‘CT tour has.
W S sell !
sell sell sell
Overlapping contests
quadruple overlap heats, no problem 😇
the forecast shows a couple of small clean days then the 7/8th show a solid NW swell with offshores for both the 7th and 8th….surely they will hold off and get some real waves????
haha – that ELO-curse is brutal!
Yet another Aussie shark death
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Surely there’s some good old fashioned vigilante Aussie Quint’s around when ya need ’em…
Super fuckin sad. Not a chance in hell that I’d swim offshore in that bloody country. If one gets me near-shore then so be it. But offshore swimming seems a bit too dicey. Poor girl.
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diners, drive-ins and chicken ‘n waffles…tossed gallo wine…good hot sauce~
So whats with the current wsl ceo, that incredibly vanilla white guy with the robot smile? After all he’s been in charge for a year now? What did he accomplish so far, is he just paying bills and following up on emails?
Why’s BG not targeting him instead, he’s got dirt on Chas n DR? Leverage?
Some real issues we’re being led astray from.
Which, faced with the never ending waiting period, may be more exciting than the surfing itself.
Is there no other good surf spots in hawaii?
No there isn’t.
Everyone please move along to the next contest location.
And don’t come back.
Agreed, Indo is where its at.
we won’t raise ur rent ‘yil manana…try replacing a nat gas line~
Get rid of the events no one watches (wave pool etc) have 6 events with long waiting periods in the right season.. bring back the search comp so there is somewhere different every year and it might be close to what they advertise.. dream tour.. best surfers best waves.. oh and end it at pipe and fuck the final 5 off… If it happens in the water that’s a special moment!
A Bailey’s Ladder 🪜 funeral pyre on the beach with some sacrificial lambs is the only way to please Huey and lift the curse. Who we throwing on first?
Gonna be a hot-ass fire to burn aluminium.
A funeral smelter
Fire up the DEW
As much as I don’t care about watching professional surfers in a repetitive wave pool, at least AbuDhabi doesn’t have a waiting period. If they would just put some jellyfish in the pool or maybe a couple stonefish.
What about slavebouys they have to slalom thru
Forget ocean surfing as a professional event. The pool in thousands of locations worldwide is where the game actually progresses. As Kelly foresaw over a decade ago.
except it don’t.
Progression at Waco and Boa Vista not at the Ranch. That is, if progression is measured by combos and air variants.
Pipe peeling the death bells as I speak. Farce.
Stop hyping the danger in surfing, scary yes, but Its not that dangerous, Its fucking water (and some rocks)
Yeah, those dang rocks. https://beachgrit.com/2024/06/surfing-superstar-almost-killed-at-pipeline-joao-chianca-makes-spectacular-return-to-water/
https://beachgrit.com/2024/01/breaking-pipeline-claims-fifth-surfer-as-horror-season-continues/
https://beachgrit.com/2024/02/life-of-new-york-surfer-austin-gibbons-almost-killed-at-pipeline-on-day-deemed-too-big-for-lexus-pipe-pro-saved-by-off-duty-lifeguards/
Anlther aussie got sharked up.
Claiming that surfing is dangerous because a few are injured or killed doing it is like saying driving a car is dangerous because people die in auto races. BG needs it’s clickbait and sensationalism, though. 🙄
people even say sharks are dangerous , but as there were 150 drowning deaths in coastal locations in Australia last year…….
The future is the past. Tomorrow is yesterday. The answer is the question
The curse can only be lifted by the WSL CEO riding Beth’s Backward Fins board. The nose is the tail. Backward is forward. One wave. Make sense from senseless.
Then burn that board and scatter the ashes to the wind.
Otherwise,… well,
There’s no earthly way of knowing
Which direction we are going
There’s no knowing where we’re rowing
Or which way the river’s flowing
Is it raining, is it snowing
Is a hurricane a-blowing
Not a speck of light is showing
So the danger must be growing
Are the fires of Hell a-glowing
Is the grisly reaper mowing
Yes, the danger must be growing
For the rowers keep on rowing
And they’re certainly not showing
Any signs that they are slowing
This has gone far enough!!!
Quite right, sir!